Using comet with PHP?
- by ryeguy
I was thinking of implementing real time chat using a PHP backend, but I ran across this comment on a site discussing comet:
  My understanding is that PHP is a
  terrible language for Comet, because
  Comet requires you to keep a
  persistent connection open to each
  browser client. Using mod_php this
  means tying up an Apache child
  full-time for each client which
  doesn’t scale at all. The people I
  know doing Comet stuff are mostly
  using Twisted Python which is designed
  to handle hundreds or thousands of
  simultaneous connections.
Is this true? Or is it something that can be configured around?